Improvement in baling-presses



o v-v. PLEETWOOD & B. W. MORTBN.

BALING PRESS No. 42,046. Patented Mar. 22, 1864.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CALEB V. FLEETVVOOD ANDv EDWARD W'. MORTEN, OF VTNOENNES, IN DIANA.

' IMPROVEM ENT IN BALING-PRESSES.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No.. 42.04 6, dated March 22, 1864.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that we, OALEB V. FLEE'rwooD and EDWARD W. MORTEN, both of Vi neennes Knox county, Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement 'in Baling-Press'es; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and lexact description thereof, reference being had to the aec'ompanying drawings, making part-of this specification.

The most distinguishing characteristics of ourinvention are, first, a mode of converting a Vertical into a horizontal press, andvice versa; second, a node of securing the press against spreading 77 Figure 1 is a .perspective view of our press' in-its vertical form. Fig. 2 is a top view of the horizontal form of our press. v ,Fig. 3v is an end View of our driving-wheels. Fig.` irepresents the followers, s'tirrup,and combined s'crew-and-toggle movement-detached. Fig` 5 shows our door-fastening detached.

Our press in its vertical form may be described as follows:

A A' are two bed-sills, aifording support and attachment tofour stanchi'ons, B, firmly connected by means of transons G, beams D, and stay-bolts E. i

F F' GI are doors which, when closed, form part of the inelosing box or trunk in Which the hay is to be tranped and pressed. Of these doors the doors F F' only are used in the vertical arrangement, and that only for the purpose of opening the box tohoop the bale. In the lorzontal form the'door F is permanently closed, and all three of the front doors, F G G' are thrown open in order to fill the box with hay. Tle doors G and G' are hinged (g and g') to the frame on their top and bottom edges, rcsp'eetively. Each of the two doors G and G' are provided at their free edges with clamps H and H', having 'Claws h and h', of which those on the lower door embrace the stanchions B, and are (for thevertical arrangenent) perforated to receive pins,which, enterthe door.

door F' overlapping the doors G and G' cnaing the stanchions, serve to hold the door G pernancntly shut. The claws h' h' serve to prevent the sides of the press beingspread or bulged out intle act of pressing. The door F is hinged (f) at one of its vertical edges, and at the opposite verticaledge is secured by a duplex bolt, I, which enters two eyes, J J', on The upper and lower edges of the B, and in line with them.

merely socketed into the 'stanchions in order v,

ables all of the front doors, F G G', to be secured by the one duplex bolt or catch I. The

vertical forn of our press is provided with auJ 'upper frane, K, consisting of four posts inserted in sockets in the tops of the stanchions The posts' K are that they inay be readily vshipped wlen the press is to be used horizontally, as in Fig. 2.

The office of the frame K is to guide the tranper .and support the pulleys L, over which the rope M passes, by which the tramper N is suspended.

.O O' are two stirrups, whose lower ends enter a head, P. The stirrupsO 0' occupy vertical grooves Q in the interior of the frame.

i The tramper N has two hooks, R R', proje'cting from its top, which books, when the tramper'is to serve as a follower, are engaged over` the tops of the stirrnps. (See Figs. 2 and 4.) p

The-lower follower, S, and the head F are hinged to opposite extremities of a compound toggle,T, whose two knees carry rollers V, which rest and work upon the -beam'D. v The knees of the toggle have the forn 'of nuts to receive the right and left screw NV V', which carries at one end a pinion, X, which meshes with a driving-wheel, Y, to which is attached the sweepl Z, to which the team is hitched.

.The wheel Y-ispivoted (y) to the beams D in line with the` screw V V', and is capable of being turned on said pivot through ninety degrees without ungearin g fro'n the' pinion, so as to be available for either-the vertical or horizontal arrangement. I Fig. 1 shows the wheel Yin position for the vertical mode,` and Fig. 2 in position for the horizbntal pressing, while Fig. 3 represents the said wheel in the act 'of transposition fron the one form to the other.. The stirrups are so formed as to spring outward or away from each other at their upper parts when disengaged-from the hooks R R'. The effect of tl'is'provisionis to keep the stirrups clear of the tranper N, so as not to interfere with the descent and ascent of the` latter.` The peculiar fornof the shoulders 1 of the stirrups enables their extreme upper parts to closely hug the tramper wlen the latter is used as the upper follower, and to allow it free 2 f amore mittent windlass, 2, of any approved construction.

The sides 5'5l of the box are made yielding, and during the acts of tramping and pressing are pressed inward by means of cams 6, which are relaxed when it is desired to eject the hooped and finished bale.

The' operation of the vertical form of our press is as follows: The stirrups O O' being.

elevated, and the tramper N being disengaged therefrom and connected to the intermittent windlass 2, and the doors being closed, the contents of the box are alternately replenished and beaten-.in the usual manner until the proper quantity ofhay has been accumulated. The,

tramper N, being now attached to the stirrups O O' by means of the hooks R It', becomes in effect the upper` follower, and the screw-andtoggle movement V W W' T bein g started, the two followers N and S advance to meet each other midway of the box, and so as to bring the compressed hay between the two doors F and F', which doors being'then opened by releasing the duplex boltI and a 'similar one on the rear side, the bale is hooped in the usual way. The 4yielding sides 5 5' being now 're lieved by the turning back .of the cams 6, the hooped bale is discharged from the press. In the horizontal arrangement (see Figs. 2 and 4) the additional frame K is nnshipped, the press is laid over on its back, and the upper followg er, N, is permanently secured to the stirru-ps O O', .and the box having been charged with hay, and the entire suit of front (now upper) doors, F G G', having been closed simultaneouslyV by the one duplex bolt I, the pressing is effected in substantially the same manner as with the vertical arrangement. The stirrnps O O', being arranged within the timbers of the press, and as close as possible to the hay it-, self, act more directly and with less strain than 1 to set our'hands.

in forms hitherto employed analogous to ours, -bnt whose rods are outside of the press-frame. :The provisionfor pressing the hay equally on both sides has the advantage of permitting the mainibo'dy of hayto remain in one place, thus avoiding friction and disturbance of the laminations or successive layers of lhay and acting to press the bale equally on one sides, whereas in those presses which press wholly from one side the hayhas to travelv the entire length of the box with so much friction against the sides thereof toward the-conclusion of. the pressing action as to practically withstand the compressing force of thefollower where most distant .therefrom, resulting in an u nevenly-pressed bale.

We claim herein as new and of our inven-' tion-- 1. The arrangement of. 'main frame A B O D E, removable tramp'er-frame'K, and reversi-' ble driver Y, the whole constitutinga provision for converting a vertical intoa horizontal press, and vice versa;

42.'The combination of .the traniper N 'and hooks R R' with the stirrnps O O', adapted to 

